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  title info:
    title: Epigrams
  name:
    name part: Martial
    name part: π. 40-102
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: συγγραφέας.
  name:
    name part: Shackleton Bailey, D. R. (David Roy)
    name part: 1917-2005
    role:
      role term: επιμελητής
    role:
      role term: μεταφραστής.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Ηλεκτρονικά βιβλία
  genre: Επιγράμματα, Λατινικά
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    place:
      place term: Cambridge, MA
    publisher: Harvard University Press
    date issued: 1993
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: lat
  language:
    language term: lat
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 ηλεκτρονική πηγή (3 τ.)
  abstract: In his epigrams, Martial (c. 40-c. 103 CE) is a keen, sharp-tongued observer of Roman scenes and events, including the new Colosseum, country life, a debauchee's banquet, and the eruption of Vesuvius. His poems are sometimes obscene, in the tradition of the genre, sometimes affectionate or amusing, and always pointed. Written to celebrate the 80 CE opening of the Roman Colosseum, Martial's first book of poems, "On the Spectacles," tells of the shows in the new arena. The great Latin epigrammist's twelve subsequent books capture the spirit of Roman life in vivid detail. Fortune hunters and busybodies, orators and lawyers, schoolmasters and acrobats, doctors and plagiarists, beautiful slaves and generous hosts populate his witty verses. We glimpse here the theater, public games, life in the countryside, banquets, lions in the amphitheater, the eruption of Vesuvius. Martial's epigrams are sometimes obscene, sometimes affectionate and amusing, and always pointed. Like his contemporary Statius, though, Martial shamelessly flatters his patron Domitian, one of Rome's worst-reputed emperors. Shackleton Bailey's translation of Martial's often difficult Latin eliminates many misunderstandings in previous versions. The text is mainly that of his highly praised Teubner edition of 1990 ("greatly superior to its predecessors," R. G. M. Nisbet wrote in Classical Review). These volumes replace the earlier Loeb edition with translation by Walter C. A. Ker (1919).
  table of contents: v. I. Spectacles -- v. II. Books 6-10 -- v. III. Books 11-14.
  target audience: general
  note: Martial ; edited and translated by D.R. Shackleton Bailey.
  note: Περιλαμβάνει ευρετήριο.
  note: Κείμενο στα λατινικά με παράλληλη αγγλική μετάφραση.
  subject:
    geographic: Ρώμη
    topic: Ποίηση
  subject:
    geographic: Ρώμη
    topic: Κοινωνική ζωή και έθιμα
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    title info:
      title: Epigrams
    name:
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    origin info:
      publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1993
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Loeb Classical Library 94-95, 480
  identifier: 9780674995550
  identifier: 9780674995567
  identifier: 9780674995291
  identifier: https://www.loebclassics.com/view/LCL094/1993/volume.xml
  identifier: https://www.loebclassics.com/view/LCL095/1993/volume.xml
  identifier: https://www.loebclassics.com/view/LCL480/1993/volume.xml
  record info:
    record content source: MaCbHUP
    record creation date: 141025
    record change date: 20210917104246.0
    record identifier: hup0000194
    language of cataloging:
      language term: gre